Couldnt agree more! I havent really payed attention to V8 super-cars since around 96. The series needs other makes and models to make it exciting again. Its too 50/50 or 2-up. Boring!

I couldnt give a crap about that race anymore. Its about time we get some different makers in there like the good old days.

I believe the bluebird holds the lap record for the old track. In I think 1984 when they were on pole they pulled out a full boost lap and set the lap record and the following year they put the kink in conrod. I don't know the finer details of the story but it's something like that.

The bluebirds were hampered by homologation rules because they were restricted to the type/size of turbo they were allowed to use and suffered reliablility issues with them. The DR30 was another story and was quick and reliable.

Don't know if anybody has been to the trackside "la porceta" up at gosford but the owner has one of the ex-gibson bluebirds, a DR30 and I think several of the gibson GTR's. They have them on display at times, in the restaurant. it's worth a look.

and how many times would you have to rebuild the engine in the 161 lap,1000 km race?boost boy.

yes the bluebirds ran 40 to 50 psi in qualifying... and did discard the turbos after. There was a good interview with Gibson in zoom last year where he admittedto bos controlers and stull to break the rules unfairly imposed on them.

They basically ran as much boost as the engine and turbo would allow.

i liked his tricks for hiding all the gizmos in the cars and cams didnt even notice most of them during scruteniring. Such as putting racing intercoolers in nissan packaging claiming they were factory parts and therefore allowable for competition under the homogolation (sic) rules.

found this site says that skaife did a 2:12 sumthing

http://www.thegodzilla.com/race-history-of-the-godzilla.php

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wasnt it somthing like 45 psi
i remember they threw the turbs out after qualifying because they where usualy stuffed

#### aye thats awesome wish they opened up the v8 supercar class to allow other makes and size engines. thanx m8

can anyone remeber how much boost fury's bluebird ran in qualifying? it was some crazy number

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in 1992 after having their minimum weight increased to 1500kg!!! in the leadup to Bathurst. they were restricted to 1.3bar boost, and loosing a further 0.1bar boost at Bathurst due to altitude which Gibson claimed to be worth about 40bhp, the Skaife/Richards GT-R qualifyied on pole with a 2:13.820, and was the only car in the 13's during normal qualifying.

The Toohey's top 10 was a different story! The DJR Sierra, who like all other turbo cars was free to run whatever boost they want, turned the wick up for the Top10 Shootout and got pole. The GT-R ended up in 3rd with Skaife not able to equal the earlier qualifying times.

V8 Supercabs are 1350kg, have massive areo advantages and aren't hamstrung by having to use any factory parts or suspension pivot points or anything like that. The pole time this year was 2:06.9764 = 6.8436 faster than the production based GT-R, or in rallying terms, 1.1sec per km faster after 14 years of development into a silhouette series bearing no mechanical resemblance to the production car, and with massive aero packages and 150kg less weight.

Take the restrictor off and drop the extra ballast from the GT-R and I know which car I'd put my money on!